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6:28

“Corporate law to CEA operations: Mid-career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Kathleen Perell | Chief of Staff to the COO at the Centre for Effective Altruism Kathleen Perell began her career with a clear goal: obtain a law degree and then find meaningful, mission-aligned work. While she was never committed to a particular cause, she knew she wanted to do something good for others. Unfortunately, like many, she faced the financial and institutional reality of legal education in the U.S., graduating with substantial debt and limited practical experience. To pay it off and

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10:39

“Questions about animal welfare markets” by Austin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Last week, I joined “Revolutionist's Night” — a cabal aiming to radically improve animal welfare, with some flavor of 1800s slavery abolitionism or the 1700s American revolution. Our topic for the evening was inspired by Aaron Boddy's post “The current market price for animal welfare is zero”: can we create a market where anyone can directly buy credits for animal welfare? I’m very sympathetic to this idea, and similar ideas like Paul Christiano's for offsetting factory-farmed eggs. (A year ago, I

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17:16

“Strategic Animals Funding Circle - Results from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

The Strategic Animal Funding Circle just finished its first two rounds of grantmaking, and we ended up giving ~$900,000 across 16 organisations. Below is some brief reasoning behind why we were excited about these grants and broad factors that resulted in us not granting to other organisations. Overall we were pretty excited about the quality of applications we got and feel optimistic the circle will continue to run/deploy more in the future. At the bottom of this post, you can find more

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15:36

“Reflecting On My Career Journey” by Kevin Xia 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

I learned about EA in mid-2022, finished my degree and got “properly” involved in my local community in 2023, got my first paid role in the movement in 2024 and got promoted to Managing Director at Hive at the beginning of 2025. In career-related conversations, I often get asked about how I got into my role. I used to be hesitant to share my career journey, since it seemed riddled with luck and privilege. In many instances, I felt like I was just in the right place at the right time, and many of my

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11:23

“Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Introduction This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's (AWF) grantmaking from April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 (3 months). It follows the previous January-March 2025 payout report. Organizational updates In May, the AWF welcomed two full-time fund managers: Neil Dullaghan, who joined as a Senior Fund Manager, and Renata Scarellis, who joined as a Fund Manager. They bring experience in animal welfare grantmaking, research, and advocacy: Dr. Neil Dullaghan is a full-time senior fund

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10:41

“From rave websites to AI risk: 30 years of career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Summary After three decades spanning startups, consulting, banking, entrepreneurship, and impact nonprofits, I'm sharing lessons that might be useful for others navigating career decisions. I was prompted by the Career Conversations Week post noting that "EA skews pretty young, so if your career can be measured in decades rather than years, you probably have a lot to share!" Rather than my specific job history, I'll focus on lessons learned, though I'm wary of biases or being too general to be

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20:29

“From a Side Project to a Funded Organisation: My...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

I tend to send the recording of this talk quite a lot when I’m asked to share my story about how I started Hive, so I thought for folks’ convenience I’d make it into a post so that it's more scannable. Some of the info is a bit outdated, I tried to include updates in brackets. I included some slides to help demonstrate the point, but you can find all my slides in the resource section below. Hi everyone, and thank you for coming to my talk! I’m Sofia Balderson, co-founder of Hive—a global

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6:30

“Private equity to shrimp welfare: Mid-career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Hi everyone! This post is the first in a series of four profiles on mid-career transitions in EA. Andrés very kindly allowed me to interview him on his shift from private equity to shrimp welfare. I think it takes a lot of courage to make drastic career changes, especially those that result in significant pay cuts and uncertainty. I hope this series is helpful to those considering it! And separately, I found it really lovely to hear how excited each person was about EA. Andrés Jimenez Zorrilla |

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3:04

“Ask Career Advisors Anything” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

(about careers) As part of Career Conversations Week on the EA Forum, I’ve gathered together some impact-focused career advisors to answer any questions you might have. Career Advisors from Probably Good, Successif, Animal Advocacy Careers and 80,000 Hours will be online throughout the week to answer your questions. Interested and knowledgeable readers are also welcome to chip in! Leave your questions as comments below.Some details on our advisors: Probably Good is a nonprofit organisation dedicated

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6:25

“Grateful for Job Choice” by Denkenberger🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

TLDRWhen we look across all jobs globally, many of us in the EA community occupy positions that would rank in the 99.9th percentile or higher by our own preferences within jobs that we could plausibly get.[1] Whether you work at an EA-aligned organization, hold a high-impact role elsewhere, or have a well-compensated position which allows you to make significant high effectiveness donations, your job situation is likely extraordinarily fortunate and high impact by global standards. This career

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7:53

“80,000 Hours for Global Development” by Benh713

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/20

Summary We’re exploring the idea of building a career guidance platform aimed at helping the African diaspora - and professionals interested in development more broadly - pursue high-impact careers in Africa (or LMICs more broadly). The goal is to shift talented individuals towards higher impact roles in Global Development. 80,000 Hours already does this for a certain subset of people in developed countries (and primarily for AI and existential risks), but there are a large number of diaspora and

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41:23

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. I'm posting this because I think it is a well-articulated counterargument to the growing opinion that an AI intelligence explosion that rapidly accelerates scientific progress is imminent or inevitable. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted

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41:12

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted that it will enable dramatic scientific progress: curing cancer, doubling the human lifespan, colonizing space, and achieving a century of progress in the next decade. Given the cuts to federal funding

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2:27

[Linkpost] “Rebooting the Singularity” by cdkg

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. Tom Davidson from Forethought Research and I have a new paper responding to some recent skeptical takes on the Singularity Hypothesis (e.g. this one). Roughly half the paper is philosophical and the other half is empirical. Both halves argue that we should take the Singularity Hypothesis more seriously than many people have been taking it of late. I'm sharing this with the community here because (i) I think it will be of general interest, and (ii) this is a project I'm still

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65:57

[Linkpost] “Video and transcript of talk on ‘Can...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. (This is the video and transcript of a public talk I gave at Mox in San Francisco in July 2025, on long-term equilibria post-AGI. It's a longer version of the talk I gave at this workshop. The slides are also available here.) Introduction Thank you. Okay. Hi. Thanks for coming. Aims for this talk So: can goodness compete? It's a classic question, and it crops up constantly in a certain strand of futurism, so I'm going to try to analyze it and understand it more precisely. And

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0:54

[Linkpost] “Eggs from in-ovo sexed hens are now...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. The brand NestFresh eggs has just started selling eggs from in-ovo sexed hens in the US. Right now, they are only available at some Whole Foods locations in the Southwest, soon to be expanded to other locations. Supporting those eggs now is particularly valuable, as their market performance will influence other companies' decisions to adopt the technology. See the blog post linked above for details! ---First published: July 18th, 2025

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5:40

“Why I am more optimistic about the animal movement...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/16

Sometimes working on animal issues feels like an uphill battle, with alternative protein losing its trendy status with VCs, corporate campaigns hitting blocks in enforcement and veganism being stuck at the same percentage it's been for decades. However, despite these things I personally am more optimistic about the animal movement than I have ever been (despite following the movement for 10+ years). What gives? At AIM we think a lot about the ingredients of a good charity (talent, funding and idea)

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17:31

“Addressing the nonhuman gap in intergovernmental AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/16

Originally submitted as a project for the AI Safety Fundamentals AI Governance course in April 2025; edited and somewhat expanded for publication on the EA Forum in July 2025. Thanks to Yip Fai Tse, Arturs Kanepajs, Max Taylor, Constance Li, Kevin Xia, Adrià Moret and Sam Tucker-Davis for advice and suggestions before and/or after the writing of this piece. Introduction We review how major AI governance frameworks address – or, more commonly, overlook – the interests of sentient nonhumans,

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1:27

“July ’25 EA Newsletter Poll” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/15

This poll was linked in the July edition of the Effective Altruism Newsletter. If you haven't got your newsletter yet, it'll be with you in a few hours. It is possible to rationally prioritise between causes without engaging deeply on philosophical issuesPlace your vote or view results.https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/chqwwnhjweifDXCsi/july-25-ea-newsletter-poll --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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1:22

[Linkpost] “Solving Problems, Not Building Empires...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

This is a link post. Linkpost as I am mostly writting on substack now. TL;DR: NGOs have a unique advantage over for-profits in their ability to cooperate and build common goods, yet few fully leverage "ecosystem thinking." This approach extends beyond an organization's direct impact to consider the entire field's health. Effective ecosystem actors: 1) actively build and connect movements by supporting newcomers and making strategic introductions; 2) practice radical transparency about both

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